For almost 2 months now I’ve been experiencing hot flashes. I moved from Ohio to Missouri and they started shortly after I got a job here. I haven’t had any other symptoms then the hot flashes. They happen all the time. Also my period hasn’t been ‘regular’ for about a year. I have my period once ever 3 months. My doctors did blood work last fall & found nothing wrong. I’m concerned that I maybe going through menopause early because I’ve never had children. I haven’t been to a doctor here yet.

I recently found out that I have a hormonal imbalance. My body makes too much estrogen and I have been having pregnancy symptoms because of it. I am not pregnant, nor have I ever been. I have tried to get pregnant but, I think due to the imbalance of my hormones, I believe that is why I have not succeeded. I have tried looking up what causes hormonal imbalence, and each time, the word menopause is involved. My periods have not been normal since before I got married just last September (it was also the first time I became sexually active, although I have not had sex many times since I have been married either. I was a virgin up until after the wedding.) Is it possible that I could be going though early monopause at my age of 26? And if I am, then is it possible to stop or delay this until I am older? I want to be able to have kids before I am 30. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

This adorable bear asks the question that’s on all our minds: “Is it me, or is it HOT in here?”

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I did a little research and found this great article that explains why your feet hurt:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/medical/orthopedics060991.htm

It’s written by a doctor who explains how inappropriate shoes conspire with gravity to cause a lot of trouble for women’s feet.

Hello, im 26 of age and im too having these hotflashes.

I eaither get them all day or they will be hit and miss during the week. I just had a baby 6mo ago and thought that it was my hormones still going crazy. I will awake in the middle of the night with night sweat so much that it feels as if i wet my bed.

I have been in and out of the doctors for more test then anything, and they can not put there finger on it.

It is scary, at time when i have these so called attacks i get shaky and very light headed then i start to sweat from my back of my neck, under and between my breast, back of my legs and so much under my arms that it get so embarresing, (im not over weight, current weight is 136, 5′6 ft tall)

Then i get hyper, I just wish i knew what is going on, many people are telling me that these sytomps are menapause, but im way to young. Arent I?

What could be the answer?

In 1961 Jenny Joseph wrote a poem entitled “Warning” which begins,

“When I am an old woman…
I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me…
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?…”

In 1996, a BBC poll found that “Warning” had become Britain’s favorite poem.

Inspired by the poem, and by her own enjoyment of a red hat, Sue Ellen Cooper of California, along with a few friends, started the Red Hat Society. Members meet for tea parties and other events, wearing bright purple outfits and red hats. (Junior members, who are under age 50, wear lavender outfits and pink hats.) As the society grew, the idea spread, and there are now over 55,000 members with over 2,000 chapters around the world.

Information about the original Red Hat Society can be found at www.redhatsociety.com. The rights to reproduce and sell copies of the poem “Warning” belong to Elizabeth Lucas, who has a website at www.elizabethlucasdesigns.com.